Some of the material I posted wasnt answered in the first posting, so I am
posting it again because I think it is important.
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THE GAY PACKET: Framing the Issue of Homosexuality in Society, Part II
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Now let's take a look once again at the "Born Gay?" article. It is taken from
a Christian perspective, but it holds vital information that must be taken into
account. Now here is an article that at least considers homosexuality to be
genetic disposition. Here is what the article said:
"Born Gay?" by Joe Dallas _Christianity_Today_ June 22, 1992
How politics have skewed the debate over the biological causes of
homosexuality.
Recent findings by scientists suggest that homosexuality is an
inborn trait. Simon LeVay, a neuroscientist with the Salk
Institute of La Jolla, California, found the area of the
hypothalamus that allegedly governs sexual activity to be smaller
in homosexual men than in heterosexual ones. (The brains of 41
cadavers were studied by LeVay, 19 of which had belonged to
homosexuals.)
On the heels of LeVay's work came the findings of psychologist
Michael Bailey, a gay-rights advocate, and psychiatrist Richard
Pillard, who, like LeVay, identifies himself as a homosexual.
Published in December 1991, Bailey and Pillard's research with
identical twins (who have identical genetic codes) and fraternal
twins (whose genetic codes differ) showed that if one identical
twin is homosexual, the other's chances of being homosexual are
three times higher than among fraternal twins. This, they say,
suggests a link between homosexuality and genetics.
Predictably, this has been grist for the media mill. Although the
researchers themselves show some restraint in their claims (LeVay
admits his findings do not establish "cause and effect"), the press
has not always been as careful. Major talk shows and news articles
have used the research to take the argument a step further, not
only telling us homosexuality is probably inborn, but also that our
views on the subject should be modified. The argument goes
something like this: "Homosexuals are born that way, which means
homosexuality is a normal condition. What is normal cannot be
immoral. Therefore, prohibitions against homosexuality make no
sense."
Many Christians, especially those of us involved in ministry to
homosexuals, react strongly to such a message. Scientific inquiry
should, of course, be welcomed instead of shunned; but when such
inquiry is used to challenge biblical teaching, then a clear,
balanced response from the church is called for. To give it, we
need to ask and answer four essential questions: (1) Were the
studies conducted in an unbiased and fair way? (2) What are the
true implications of the results? (3) Are they accepted almost
universally by the scientific and medical communities? (4) Are
they compatible with biblical truth?
_Agendas_and_Outcomes_
Having an agenda is no crime. So when prohomosexual doctors are
motivated to promote gay rights through research, that is no reason
to ignore the research itself. At the same time, it goes give us
sufficient reason to explore how their bias may have shaped their
conclusions.
To their credit, these men have been open about their agendas.
LeVay, for example, told _Newsweek_ that his lover's death from
AIDS prompted him to find an inborn cause for homosexuality, a
quest so important that he would give up his scientific career
altogether if he did not find it. He hopes to "educate" society,
affecting legal and religious attitudes about homosexuality.
Pillard is just as direct about his goals: "A genetic component
in sexual orientation says, 'This is not a fault, and this is not
your fault.'" Both he and Bailey consider their findings to be
good news because they will "disprove homophobic claims"; or as gay
journalist Randy Shilts puts it, they will "reduce being gay to
something like being left-handed, which is all it is."
To simplify homosexuality by equating it with left-handedness is
tempting if you are homosexual or a gay-rights activist or a parent
feeling guilt over your child's homosexual orientation. But to
those who cannot view homosexuality as a normal condition, even if
it is inborn, the researchers' assumptions sound questionable.
Are we to think that because something might be genetic in origin,
it is therefore "natural"? What, then, do we say about genetic
deformities or birth defects? Are they, too, "normal" because a
significant number of people were born with them?
This raises a larger and more vital question: Should the standard
for normality be determined by what is inborn?
Before addressing that question, though, let's consider whether
these studies have indeed proven homosexuality to be inborn.
_Facts_and_Implications_
As we examine LeVay's and Pillard and Bailey's findings, we have
to distinguish between what the facts really are, and what they
imply.
The facts are simple enough. One bundle of neurons in the
hypothalamus (which regulates heart rate, sleep, hunger, and sex
drive) was found to be nearly three times as large in the brains
of the 16 heterosexual men studied by LeVay as it was in the
brains of the 19 homosexual men. At first glance, that looks
conclusive: an open-and-shut case for the genetic argument.
But it is not that simple. It is questionable whether the portion
of the hypothalamus LeVay studied (the INAH 3) can be accurately
measured. It is smaller than a snowflake, and scientists are not
in agreement as to how its size should be determined. According
to _Newsweek_, "Measuring brain structures is notoriously difficult
and controversial -- neuroscientists cannot agree on whether the
most meaningful gauge is the volume of the region [LeVay's method]
or its number of neurons."
Further complicating matters is the sensitive nature of the
hypothalamus itself. Does its size determine homosexuality, or
does homosexuality determine its size? No one is sure. "You could
postulate," says neurophysiologist Kenneth Klivington of the Salk
Institute, "that brain change occurs throughout life, as a
consequence of experience." Klivington refers to a "feedback loop"
in which the brain influences behavior, behavior shapes experience,
experience "affects the organization of the brain." Which raises
the question: Are homosexuals born with a smaller portion of the
hypothalamus or does the size decrease later in life?
We do not know. Nor do we know for certain what the sexual
histories of LeVay's subjects really were, as LeVay himself admits.
Those he identified as homosexual are assumed to have been so by
information gleaned from their files, but can we be sure the other
subjects were heterosexual? By what criteria was their sexuality
determined?
These are other questions have no doubt led LeVay to be
conservative in his conclusions: "What I reported was a difference
in the brain structure of the hypothalamus. We can't say on the
basis of that what makes people gay or straight." So what appears
to be "proof positive" turns out to be, by LeVay's admission,
"perhaps and maybe."
Pillard and Bailey's twin studies are similarly vague. Like
LeVay's work, they look conclusive to the casual observer: 52
percent of the identical twins of homosexual men were also found
to be homosexual. If a homosexual man has an identical twin,
these statistics suggest his twin brother will more likely than
not be homosexual as well. Therefore, something in the genes
causes homosexuality.
Not so, says Anne Fausto Sterling, a biologist at Brown University
in Rhode Island. Declaring Pillard and Bailey's conclusions to be
"badly interpreted genetics," Sterling insists that "in order for
such a study to be meaningful, you'd have to look at twins raised
apart." Common sense would lead us to agree -- identical twins
raised in the same family environment will have any number of
similarities, many of which are linked to their shared upbringing
rather than genetics.
Like LeVay, Pillard shows restraint in his conclusions: "There
must be something in the environment," he concedes when confronted
with the fact that many identical twins have different sexual
preferences. In fact, environmental influences seem to be a
predominant factor in the development of homosexuality according
to another twin study, similar to Pillard and Bailey's but
different in its conclusions.
In March of 1992, the British Journal of Psychiatry published a
report on homosexuals who are twins, interviewing 46 homosexual men
and woman who were twins. (Both fraternal and identical twins were
included in the study.) Only 20 percent of the homosexual twins
had a homosexual co-twin, leading the researchers to conclude that
"genetic factors are insufficient explanation of the development
of sexual orientation."
All of which brings us back to the issues of facts, suggestions,
and implications: The _fact_ is, differences may exist in the
brains of some homosexual men. Likewise, some sets of identical
twins have been studied, and a scant majority of them (52 percent)
share the same sexual orientation. The _suggestion_ that
homosexuality is therefore inborn, though, is interpretive and
arguable. The _implication_ put forth by some that society should
therefore accept homosexuality as common, normal, and morally
neutral cannot be supported from the facts alone. "Different" does
not mean "inborn," and "inborn" does not mean "normal." The leap
from facts to implications is too large.
_Professional_Critics_
There might be more force to the "inborn" argument if it were
almost universally accepted by the professional community. But
far from universal acceptance, the studies in question have raised
more than a few scientific hackles. "This is not a debate about
biology, but about the body politic," scoffs Anne Fausto Sterling.
Her initial response to LeVay's findings was even more pointed:
"My freshman biology students know enough to sink this study."
William Byrne, resident of psychiatry at Columbia University's
College of Physicians and Surgeons, is no less subtle in his
criticism of LeVay, Bailey, and Pillard: "If you look at any one
piece of that [born gay] evidence, it is inconclusive. It's like
trying to add up a hundred zeroes so you can get one."
Others agree that the results are far from final: "I'm not willing
to say there isn't a biological component, but there's too much
else we haven't explored," says John D'Emilio, an associate
professor of history at the University of North Carolina at
Greensboro. Richard Nakamura of the National Institute of Mental
Health takes a similar view. Allowing that LeVay's research shows
"a very interesting initial result," he concludes, "it will take
a much larger effort to be convinced that there is a link between
this structure and homosexuality." Adding to these criticisms are
the implied disagreements of the many professionals who consider
homosexuality to be a changeable condition and could therefore
hardly endorse a genetic theory.
So if the studies in question have not really proven homosexuality
is genetic, and if the scientific community is not in agreement as
to whether or not they are even valid, why have we been inundated
with news stories touting the latest "evidence" that gays are born
gay?
Welcome to the politically charged world of the popular media.
Initial findings by homosexual researchers with a clearly stated
agenda were fed to a sympathetic press, which generously splashed
these findings (and the alleged implications) across America's
front pages. It should be remembered that a recent polling of
media representatives showed 80 percent do not think homosexuality
is wrong, 90 percent favor abortion rights, and only 20 percent
attend church or synagogue. So it comes as no surprise that the
studies in question have been given more than generous coverage.
In fact, a comparison to the news media's handling of a similar
genetic study will show how disproportionate the current hoopla
really is. In the fall of 1991 (around the same time as LeVay's
results were published), researchers at the City of Hope Medical
Center found a certain gene to be present in 77 percent of
alcoholics who were studied, yet absent in 72 percent of the
nonalcoholics also studied. This presented significant evidence
for a genetic predisposition toward alcoholism, which has long
been a subject of interest and concern to Americans. Yet no major
magazine featured these studies on their covers, and they received
only passing mention in the press, though they were written up in
the _Journal_of_the_American_Medical_Association_. Why? Was one
study "better" or more important to the population than the other?
Hardly, but one study (LeVay's) was clearly more important to the
press, despite the opinions of the scientific community.
_Compassion_and_Conviction_
What, then, do Christians have to say in response? Criticizing the
latest research is not enough. We, too, have something to say
about human sexuality. We have a frame of reference--the Bible--
which is an intelligent, explicit document with specific guidelines
for sexual behavior and vital insights into human needs. From that
reference point, we too have something to contribute to the
national debate on homosexuality.
We probably don't need to convince each other that homosexuality
is not God's design. A 1991 survey of American churchgoers found
that 75 percent disapprove of homosexuality, and 81 percent of
those who frequently attended church believe homosexual acts are
always immoral. Still, as Peter said, we should be ready to give
an answer for our beliefs (1 Peter 3:15). The way we answer may
be as important as the answer itself.
Our response should show interest and concern, two qualities the
church has rarely shown when dealing with homosexuality. We must
admit we have mishandled the issue in many ways: we have veered
between ignoring the problem to becoming obsessed with it; we have
made hasty and false generalizations at times about homosexuals
themselves; and we have shown a tremendous zeal for defeating the
political goals of gays while showing less concern for their
eternal well being. [See _Christianity_Today_, Feb. 6, 1981,
"Homosexuals Can Change".] So when we respond to progay research,
let's keep in mind the sad truth that our own record on this issue
is less than ideal.
Let us also be open-minded toward new evidence. Simply saying,
"The Bible says homosexuality is a sin--so I don't care what your
studies show!" sounds suspiciously like intellectual insecurity.
Of course we must hold to biblical values, but let's at least hear
the evidence before we judge it.
However, we cannot afford a naive, gullible response, either. We
can and should look critically at new claims, weighing them not
only against Scripture but against established and current
objective data.
A biblical response to the "born gay" question begins with
Scripture's view of the human condition. Humanity is fallen,
incomplete, and beset with physical, psychological, and spiritual
problems. Adam and Eve's disobedience in the Garden brought
consequences onto every aspect of our being (Genesis 3:16-19), our
genetic and biological structures included. Physically we are not
what we were meant to be; death and corruption entered the world
as a result of sin, not divine intent. As the psalmist laments,
"Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother
conceive me" (Psalm 51:5); the apostle Paul describes how we "groan
inwardly as we wait for...the redemption of our bodies" (Romans
8:23).
Thus we can easily allow that there are, in some cases, physical
imperfections that predispose people toward certain behaviors.
That is not to say anyone is predestined to engage in these
behaviors; rather, some inborn tendencies could make it easier
for a person to fall into them.
Even if it can be proven that genetic or biological influences
predispose people toward homosexuality, that will never prove
homosexuality is in and of itself normal. It will only prove what
we already know--that genetic variances can and do affect future
behavior, sometimes in undesirable ways. If some people have a
genetic predisposition toward alcoholism, as the City of Hope
research suggests, should we conclude the disease is a "normal"
condition and refuse to treat it? Should the biblical prohibitions
against drunkenness be nullified?
The principle is the same regarding homosexuality. Let research
conclude what it may about the causes; genetic origins do not
justify sinful behavior.
And that is the crux of the issue. While the Bible praises
sexuality and commends sexual enjoyment, it also gives specific
guidelines for sexual expression. Homosexual behavior is
consistently condemned throughout the Old and New Testaments
(see Genesis 19 and Romans 1:24-27 in particular), and there is
no contingency in this condemnation. Nowhere does Scripture
suggest that if one is born with homosexual inclinations, this
negates the prohibitions.
Rather than continue the "nature versus nurture" debate on origins,
we ought instead to be asking whether homosexuality is desirable,
healthy, and moral no matter what factors led to its existence.
The greatest error being promoted by LeVay, Pillard, Bailey, and
others is the assumption that they can normalize homosexuality by
proving its biological sources (a questionable goal, since
discrimination against blacks and women has been defended on
genetic grounds). One wonders how many other aberrations will be
normalized in the future if they, too, can be shown to have been
inborn.
God's standards are absolute and not subject to our latest
discoveries. (The Bible says wisdom to man is foolishness to God.)
For those wishing to maintain those standards, God's grace is
available to overcome any number of sinful tendencies,
homosexuality included. ("I can do all things through Christ which
strengtheneth me." Philippians 4:13.) As for those who have no
desire to do so, we cannot force them, nor should we try.
But there are those outside the church who would coerce us into
changing. The Christian view of sexuality is being increasingly
denigrated and dismissed as archaic, irrelevant, and at times
dangerous. Christian spokespersons are increasingly vilified
and ridiculed when they stand in public for biblical morality.
James Dobson frequently refers to a "civil war" in America
between conservative and liberal forces. This war seems to be
escalating.
In this context, some are tempted to react with aggression and
contempt toward anyone suggesting homosexuality is determined
before birth. Others are tempted to bow to the wishes of the
progay lobby and apologize for our beliefs. But striking the
proper balance of compassion and conviction is our only legitimate
option. Unintimidated, but unsparing in our love, we still have
something to say. And say it we must.
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From Lambda Report newletter, September 1993
Latest Findings in 'Genetic Homosexuality' inconclusive:
Additional Sources: National Institutes of Health.
"On few other subjects, it seems, are reporter's instincts to probe and
investigate more blunted than the largely gay-pursued scholarship attempting to
prove that genes cause homosexuality. The last media deluge on the topic
surrounds the findings of Dr. Dean Hamer, a National Institutes of Health
researcher who found that a relatively high percentage of male homosexuals had
the same genetic "marker" on their X chromosone. In what has become a
predictable ritual of gay-sympathetic "pack" journalism, scores of reporters
ran with the Hamer study (published in the journal 'Science' July 16), with
most supplying the same spin that it heralded the imminent discovery of a "gay
gene." In what was a remarkable ommission considering the political import
many gay activists have assigned to the 'born gay' research, neither the
Washington Post nor the New York Times bothered to seek out critical comment on
Hamer's study in their front-page coverage of it. For those willing to
question, opponents are available with warnings about drawing far-reaching
conclusions from such studies. MacNeil/Lehrer reporter Jeffrey Kaye sought out
Harvard neurobiologist Evan Balaban, who noted that merely because individuals
whith a common behavior share a trait does not mean that trait caused behavior:
...it is probably possible for many years of data to come up with some
some significant correlation between stock market prices and phases of
of the moon...if you are only correlating differences in genetic
variations with one aspect of people, you're risking doing something
similarly ludicrous.
Other observers noted that Hamer and his team of researchers failed to study a
control group of heterosexual men to see if their X chromosones contained the
genetic marker. And, like other studies purporting to show an innate
connection to homosexuality, Hamer's is said to suffer from a small sample
size. Despite these deficiencies, at least Hamer is committed to trying to
replicate his work. A cohort in the field, Dr. Simon LeVay, walked away from
the science lab after the publication of his 1991 study contrasting the brains
of allegedly gay and straight men set off a fury of media speculation of
genetic homosexuality. Critics said the study by LeVay, a homosexual, was
riddled with defects. Among them: his tiny sample size; questions over who of
his deceased subjects were heterosexual and who were homosexual (a majority
died of AIDS); and doubts about whether the brain differences he found were the
result of behavior or AIDS rather than the cause of 'sexual orientation' as he
asserted. Despite these criticisms, LeVay---rather than try to duplicate his
findings---gave up on his research and now tours the world promoting his new
book, 'The Sexual Brain.' LeVay had said it was his life's goal after the
death of his male lover to find proof of inborn homosexuality. In the end, he
proved more the gay activist than the scientist who is gay. This brings us to
another widely overlooked pitfall of 'genetic homosexuality' research. Many of
its practitioners are gays out to show that homosexuality is innate and thus
and irrepressible part of one's being---like the skin color of blacks. Such
assertions have obvious implications for the political agenda of gay activists.
'[If] groups are discriminated against for, among other things, traits which are
determined to be immutable, then the discriminatory law can only be valid if
[the government] can show a compelling national interest,' said Richard Green,
quoted in the gay magazine Frontiers. Green, an attorney and professor of
psychiatry at UCLA, was one of the 10 'possible press sources' whose names were
faxed by Hamer to reporters covering his study. Others on Hamer's list:
homosexual researcher Richard Pillard, whose study on homosexual twins paved
the way for Hamer's study, and LeVay, whose work Hamer cites uncritically. In
addition Hamer's research partner, Dr. Angela Pattatucci, is reported by
Newsday to be a 'lesbian and feminist,' according to the Family Research
Council (FRC) Pattatucci will soon release her own corrollary study on
genetics and lesbianism. FRC's Robert Knight notes that Hamer---in assessing
his subject's homosexuality---embraces the 'Kinsey Scale--an arbitrarily
concocted measurement from the discredit studies of Alfred Kinsey.' Moreover,
Knight states, Hamer betrays his biases in the Science study with his
definition of homosexuality as a 'naturally occurring variation' of sexuality.
This claim is still open to fervent debate, as testified by the many
pschyiatrists and psychotherapists who hold that homosexuality is a
developmental disorder and can be changed. Of course, thousands of once 'gay'
men and women have abandoned their homosexual past and are living happily in
heterosexual relationships, a fact that belies the 'natural' explanation of
homosexuality. Yet Hamer, appearing on ABC's 'Nightline,' dismissed the
psychiatric explanation for male homosexuality arising from a distant father as
'an idea which was widely accepted but never based on fact.' Ironically,
Hamer's colleague and 'press source,' Simon LeVay, is himself a living witness
to the validity of psychiatric explanations, noting in one interview that he
hated his father. Enthusiasts for 'genetic homosexuality' would be wise to
read the June Scientific American and its article, 'Eugenics Revisted.' Writer
John Hogan delves into the poor track record of recent claims by researchers
attempting to prove a genetic cause for alcoholism, schizophrenia, and other
maladies. Hogan writes, the media hailed the publication of studies (like
Hamer's) linking the disorders to genetic 'markers.' However, he notes, 'far
less attention was paid to the retractions that followed.'
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Understand that this type of lifestyle is now trying to be infiltrated into the
public school systems with children at very early ages.
I have 3 children's books here. I am going to give you some of the text and
plots and motives of each book.
Source: The Gay Agenda in Public Education. The Report.
1-800-462-4700
1. Gloria Goes to Gay Pride: for ages 3-8
Two lesbians are really enlightened about loving the earth (no propaganda in
that is there?). One lesbian is a gay nurse healing the earth, and the other
lesbian is a gay mechanic healing the planet.
There is a song in the book that goes "2, 4, 6, 8...being gay is really great."
Observation: If they begin to legislate this into law, you will be considered
the law breaker for not allowing it.
2. Daddy's Roommate: ages 3-8
It shows 2 dads working around the house like moms and dads should. They're
in the rest room shaving together, and it shows them in bed together. The
explanation of gays to kids in this book goes like this, "Being gay is just one
more kind of love, and love is the best kind of happiness. Daddy and his
roommate are very happy together and so am I."
Observation: Do we advocate books that poison the minds of little children.
This is the kind of stuff they are having kids read in the schools. They are
being exposed that being gay is OK, and that it is ok for 2 daddies to go to
bed with each other. If they weren't they wouldn't have shown them in bed
together.
3. Heather Has 2 Mommies: ages 3-8
The book starts out showing one of the mothers going to get to get artificially
inseminated. Then it shows Heather and other kids sitting around at nap time.
The kids are telling about their fathers. Heather begins to cry because she
doesn't have a father and starts to cry. Molly says "You have 2 mommies,
that's pretty special. Mariam doesn't have a daddy either, she has a mommy
and a baby sitter. Let's draw pictures of our family so we can see what
families really look like."
Observation: A mommy and a baby sitter? See what these people are doing. They
are trying to get into the schools and indoctrinate kids with a lifestyle that
is a high risk and abnormal behavior in our society. The kids don't know any
better and they are going to accept all of this as normal. You don't think
gays recruit? This is an attempt to reconstruct society.
Don't believe it? Check out this load of evidence from the documentary video
"The Gay Agenda in Public Education" by the Report.
Project 10--in schools to promote homosexuality
"Perhaps the most controversial of the prohomosexual classroom program are the
NY's "Children of the Rainbow" and the "K-6 HIV/AIDS corriculum", variations of
which are quietly being introduced in other cities under a veil of secrecy.
These programs are usually installed before parents have been informed of their
existence.
John D. Hartington, legal counsel for school board 24; Queens, NY, states:
"'One of the major issues that was raised by the Children of the Rainbow
corriculum here in NYC was whether the information presented was age
appropriate and quite obviously it wasn't. On page 372, teachers were told
that they should take up with 1st graders in every single subject that they
taught gay and lesbian issues.'
"In San Francisco, under School Superintendent Bill Rohaus, "Fourth, Fifth, and
Sixth Graders have been required to attend sexually graphic panel discussions
presented by gays and lesbians. Outraged parents have sought legal remedies in
response to the lack of any notification of these in prompt to presentations.
Joe Dallas, Genesis Counselling, states:
"'There's a natural modesty in children that should not be tampered by anyone,
heterosexuals and homosexuals.'
Joanne Highley, counselor, states:
"'As a counselor, I'm very concerned about the fact that the focus on the sexual
at a young age is a kind of mental and emotional molestation because these
children are not meant to think about sex at such an age and even if they are,
not EVER to think of it in the context that it's being presented because it's a
false context, and it will cause them to dwell on thoughts that should not be
and it will do damage.'
K-6 HIV/AIDS corriculum glossary states:
"---Barrier Method: A device that prevents the exchange of body fluids during
sexual intercourse (vaginal, anal, oral).
---Dental Dam: A piece of latex that can be placed over the vulva during oral
sex or over the anus, during oral sex involving the anus.
---Abstinance: Refraining from sexual intercourse (anal, vaginal, oral)
---Sexual Orientation: Physical and emotional toward the same sex (homosexual),
the opposite sex (heterosexual), or both sexes (bisexual).
---Sexual intercourse: Physical contact between individuals that involves the
genitalia of at least one person (oral, vaginal, anal)
---homophobia: fear or hatred for homosexuals."
"Clearly, these definitions are designed to condition children to regard
homosexuality, heterosexuality, and bisexuality as equally common, to be
comfortable with the idea of anal intercourse and to view it as a normal
healthy activity."
"Gay activists have vowed to exert effort until every public school conforms to
this corriculum."
John D. Hartington, "'What people need to understand about programs like
Children of the Rainbow is that its not legitimate education. It's really
social indoctrination propoganda pushed by pressure groups who have no interest
in mind other than advancing their own cause and their own cause is not simply
to avoid persecution or mistreatment, their cause is to make children think
that Sodomy is perfectly common, perfectly natural, perfectly normal, perfectly
safe...and it's not!'"
Edie Gieb, President of Parents and Students United states:
"'The conservatives have just only caught on to what the liberals have know all
along and that's this, that if you get a child early enough that you can form
that mind to your agenda and you can change that child and as a result, you can
change society.'"
Project 10 Handbook of things Heterosexuals may not say:
--"I don't agree with it but I still like you"
--"Have you tried dating the opposite sex"
--"I accept you, but I don't agree with your choice"
--"I don't dislike Homosexuals, but its what they do that I dislike."
"If a student is a 'defect,' he must not speak his feelings.
The handbook gives guidelines on how gay students should come out or announce
their homosexuality to their parents. Another part of the handbook makes
suggestions for classroom debates on Homosexuality, however the conclusion to
be drawn from each discussion is pre-determined. A genuine, unregulated,
exchange of opinions are discouraged. The intent to indoctrinate, and to
inhibit free thinking is no where more evident than in these pages.
"Chad Henry, a student of Parents and Students United talks about the FEAR of
students to speak out against Homosexuality in fear of being rejected by peers,
discrimination or punishment from the teachers. They are intimidating.
"The Joy of Gay Sex--a coming out guide for young gays in the public schools.
In the book, many practices are casually described as though they are normal,
healthy sexual experiences.
Some terms and practices include:
a) Sadomasochism---sexual variation that celebrates virility, ritual, and pain.
b) J.O. Clubs---dimly lit passage ways where gays meet to masturbate or engage
in intercourse, continually moving from one cluster of activity to another.
c) fetishes---boot licking, wearing women's underwear are presented as normal
aspects of love making.
d) Water Sports/Golden Showers---refers to urinating on one's sexual partner as
a means of sexual gratification. Drinking urine is described as being "not
harmful."
e) orgies
f) Daddy-son fantasies--You be the judge.
This material is being promoted in public schools across America and is
spreading.
What did former Surgeon General Coop say about this type of behavior:
"Anal intercourse is so dangerous that no one should engage in it even with a
condom."
"That warning is born out of the infection statistics that are gathered by the
Centers for Disease Control in the U.S. Department of U.S. Health and Human
Services that NY Times did a survey in February 1989 and reported based on
three studies that over 1/2 the homosexuals in NYC and other large cities in
the U.S. were HIV infected. In a medical journal called "Sexually Transmitted
Diseases," it showed that in NY, homosexuals who visited clinics and were
tested for HIV infection had a 52% infection rate. In Dallas, it was 60%.
"The APA no longer considers Homosexuality as a mental or sexual disorder, and
counseling should be done to encourage the gay or the lesbian to pursue their
sexual orientation. In 1973, however, the APA's decision was not based only on
objective study or on the review of data, and on mutually normal discussion.
It was as a result of cohersive, shock tactics combined with intimidation and
destructive behavior that broke up meetings of the members of the APA and a
conserted, politicized campaign to revamp the diagnostic status of
homosexuality.
"Joe Dallas states, 'In '73, the general meeting of the APA was swarmed with gay
activists, who threatened to disrupt the proceedings, and who were abetted by
progay psychologists and who joined forces to assentially FORCE a decision on
the APA's part to reconsider the diagnostic status of Homosexuality. The
voting board of the APA did decide at that time to remove Homosexuality from
the list of diagnoses. This was by no means a universally accepted decision.
Some 6 years later, a polling was done of psychologists, asking them if they
felt homosexuality was normal or whether or not it represented a pathological
adeptation. Nearly 70% of the psychologists that were polled 6 years later
still felt that Homosexuality represented pathological adeptation. And to this
day, there are hundreds of psychoanalyists, psychiatrists, medical doctors,
marriage, family, and child counselors and psychologists who continue to
believe that Homosexuality is not immutible, that it is not normal that it is
changeable, and that people coming for therapy, seeking change have good reason
to be optimistic for their chances of success.'"
Edie Gieb, President of Parents and Students United states:
"'My concern is that because they have framed the issue so that all homosexuals
are seen as victims, it just naturally brings out the kind of protection with
in people to want to help, and to want to feel sorry, and to create a
tremendous amount of sympathy; which is not to say that I ever would want to
see any person--heterosexual or homosexual--abused, but on the other hand, we
need to see the other aspects of the homosexual community as well and not
merely labeling them as victims.'"
Ronald Highly, counselor, exclaims:
"'If it were just a matter of accepting human diversity, that people come with
all shapes and sizes and convictions and beliefs, we'd say 'Fine,' but when
they slip in with it at the same time which is exactly what is in the material,
that not only are homosexuals OK, socially speaking, meaning they should be
treated with respect, but homosexuality is ok and just another way of relating
to another person. We say, 'Wait a minute. Now you've gone from one subject
entirely to another one. You've asked us to accept every thing about a person
while we're accepting the person.'"
Joe Dallas, Genesis counseling, states:
"'The nature of these counseling programs is to sort of white wash homosexuality
and forbid any discussion of some of the common, negative aspects of the
homosexual lifestyle and some of the emotional issues that can come up in it.
And you may notice, today, it is not polite to mention any of these subjects,
even though they are on the consciousness of people who know anything about
homosexuality. We seem to be on a massive, cultural guilt trip in talking
about homosexuals, and that we are afraid of to point out some of the health
hazards that may be inherent in the gay lifestyle, and some of the emotional
issues that may come up among homosexuals. It's almost as though it is bigotry
to mention things that are verifiable and simple, objective truth.'"
"These programs forbid any discussion of the inherent dangers of experimenting
with gay sex. While AIDS cases among heterosexuals is on the increase, the
overwhelming majority of cases in the United States are still among
homosexuals. Yet, establishments catering to gays, seeking anonymous sex, are
doing vigorous business with special emphasis on attracting young men just
entering the lifestyle. Gays complain that people who view homosexuality
negatively do so because of ignorance and inexperience. However, a visit to
any of these establishments would provide an education likely to shock those
with even the most vivid imagination. Cruising among gays occurs at every time
of the day and in the most unlikely places, in parks, in shopping malls, in
public restrooms. Simple eye contact can lead to an anonymous sexual
encounter."
Dolores Ayling, President of Concerned Parents for Educational Accountibility
states:
"'Our question to the city of New York and to the government is 'Our we turning
our schools into sex education factories or are we going to get back to the
academics of what schools should be teaching so we can turn out productive
citizens.'"
Howard L. Hurwitz, PHD, former highschool principle, states:
"'Until the last thirty or forty years, there was a degree of objectivity in our
public schools, so that children were taught basic skills and they were
encouraged to think for themselves and special provision was made for slow
learners and rapid learners. This sensible approach to education has been
scuttled by special interest groups who have destroyed our once great public
school system.'"
"June has been declared Gay and Lesbian Pride Month in which children are
instructed to celebrate the cultural and historical diversity and contributions
of the homosexual community. This happened after Jeff Horton was elected to
the school board."
"In L.A., an official resolution stated, 'Where as LA/USD policy as contained in
educating for diversity is to develop students who appreciate and respect
diversity and understand the roles and contributions of people of diverse
groups, and where as the Stonewall Rebellion is widely viewed as the modern
gay/lesbian movement and is the reason the month of June has become a time to
celebrate the accomplishments of gay and lesbian people through parades,
marches, commemorations, cultural programs, and other means; therefore be it
resolved that the LA board of Education recognizes June of each year as Gay
and Lesbian Pride Month.'"
Dallas states, "Another objection I have with these programs is that they seem
to trample on the convictions of the significant number of parents and kids. A
lot of parents are not accepting the progay propoganda that teaches
Homosexuality as a normal variation of the sexual experience. Many parents are
raising their kids to believe that Heterosexuality is the norm. If these kids
are going into counseling programs that are directly contradicting what they're
being taught at home, then we have yet another example of the schools being
used for social engineering at the expense of parental authority."
Gieb, "Another component of the harmfulness of Project 10 is that there is no
one that is an advocate for Project 10 that is not themselves gay-identified;
and as a result, they really don't have the judgment or the balance in terms of
providing another point of view relative to Homosexuality. As a result, I
think that many times children are wrongfully labled gay and that's extremely
harmful to children if in fact they are merely experiencing confusion about who
they are."
There is a guy by the name of Robert who lived the gay lifestyle for years and
who now is discouraging kids to have gay sex states by experience of how he was
recruited into the lifestyle and how people are snagged in.
Joe Dallas states, "Now think for a minute about an adolescence, seated in a
one-on-one counseling environment. Where this adolescent is coming in with
vulnerability, insecurity and fear about a variety of sexual feelings that
he/she is trying to cope with and understand; and the counselor, representing
the progay view point, is in a position of extreme authority, in the position
where he is holding quite a bit of clout and beginning to reassure this
adolescent that THOSE confusing feelings are pretty normal and acceptible and
actually a very healthy variation of human sexuality. This adolescent is going
to, of course, internalize that as being objective truth, is going to feel as
though this adult counselor must know best in this situation, and even if what
the counselor is telling him conflicts with his own belief system, he is going
to be very inclined to accept what the counselor is saying, not only as a form
of reassurance, but as a life-long diagnosis."
"The explanation the wild fire spread of AIDS among the gay population is
strategically hidden from students. Two factors are most prominent: the
staggering degree of anonymous promiscuity among male homosexuals, and the
relative ease with which the HIV virus enters the body during anal intercourse.
The determination of gays to deflect criticism for their contributory behavior
has taken presidence over seriously attacking the spread of the disease by
discouraging youths from experimenting with dangerous practices."
John Smid, director of Love in Action, states:
"'I'm concerned with gay organizations coming into schools and encouraging young
people to express themselves sexually. I know of organizations right here in
our own county that provoke people who have homosexual thoughts to go discover
masturbation, to discover homosexual relationships sexually in junior
high/highschool years, go find out if this is where you really are, if this is
what you really want. I am so shocked that people today are so uneducated to
these things that are going on.'"
John D. Hartington,
"'The best way for parents to protect their children against education of the
sort that children have been subjected to here in NYC, is to get involved with
their schools, know the people on your board of education, find out what they
stand for, and if the things they stand for are at odds with your belief, then
get better people on the board of education.'"
Howard L. Hurwitz, Phd.
"'Parents, citizens have got to attend local board of education meetings and
remember that there are 16,600 school boards in the United States, and with the
exception of New York City and maybe one other, they are all elective boards.
Parents have got to be in there to know what the board of education is doing.
They have got to make clear to the board of education members and to the
superintendent and to anyone who is listening that they want their children to
learn basic skills, to learn something about subject matter to emerge from the
schools with an ability to read and write, and to extend to their own abilities
to think critically.'"
Dolores Ayling,
"'How was your local school board going to vote if you didn't speak up on a
corriculum, and remember that when voting time comes for a new school board.
How were these people going to vote, if you had to rise up to change their
minds and where was their mind, and what were they thinking to begin with;
therefore, you have to get rid of them. It's plain and it's very simple.
Parents and citizens have voting power. You need to get rid of people who are
trying to change the traditional values that the majority of people in this
country hold very very dear.'"
Edie Gieb,
"It is the responsibility of parents to begin to hand off the batton of the
value system that their family believes in, and to make those children
understand that there will be MANY who will be soliciting other points of view,
but that they do not have the best interests of that child in mind when they
begin to promote these other lifestyles. This is an issue that is so important
that we are talking LIFE AND DEATH."
*END OF Documentary video*
Observations:
Do we indoctrinate and desensitize kids by infiltrating basic American
institutions. It is one thing to form your organization, it is quite another
to get into others and change their structure. Let's go back:
>Funds to Scouts Halted Because of Ban on Gays:
>Source: The Washington Post, April 9, 1992, section A, page 10, col. 6
>"The United Way of the Bay Area said today it was halted of nearly $1 million-a
>year donations to local Boy Scouts because the youth group refused to change
>its ban on homosexual members. The board of United Way asked the Boy Scouts of
>America in February to drop its long-standing policy about gay members and
>leaders, or at least grant its chapters in San Fransisco metropolitan area an
>exemption. The national Boy Scouts refused, and a spokesman for the
>organization, ased in Irving, Texas, today repeated the groups position that it
>would not negotiate on the issue."
Here we have an institution, like the public school, that has traditionally
taken a stance against homosexuality and homosexuals being in their group. Why
intrude upon their civil right to have their own structure and belief system?
Why not form the Gay Boy Scouts of America? BECAUSE it wouldn't get the
funding or the support, so the only way to be funded is to ride on the coat
tail of the Boy Scouts regardless of their moral, structural belief system.
Whether it is based on a religious group or not, homosexual activists are
trying to change society as we know it---Institutions, the family, children,
societal structures, all on the back of Civil Rights. More to come on this...
QUESTION: IS IT RIGHT TO FORCE HOMOSEXUALITY DOWN THE THROATS OF CHILDREN IN
THE PUBLIC SCHOOL AT THE EXPENSE OF PARENTAL CONSENT?
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From the Lambda Report: Monitoring the homosexual agenda in American politics
and culture. September 1993
The article: U.N. Grants Voice to Gay Group with Pedophile Ties
Subtitle...NAMBLA is member of organization approved by U.S., 21 nations.
Additional sources cited:
1---NAMBLA Constitution and Position Papers, 1993.
2---NAMBLA Bulletin, "Staying Safe and Happy as a Man/Boy Lover," Unbylined
article, October 1991, pp 6-8.
3---David Thorstad, interviewed by Greg Jackson, host of the ABC talk show
program "The Last Word," December 29,1982. A transcript of the program is
reprinted in the NAMBLA book, 'A Witchhunt Foiled: The FBI versus NAMBLA
(NAMBLA:1985), appendix.
4---Luis Miguelito de Argentina, "Stop Jerking Off the Wind!" NAMBLA bulletin,
May 1992, p.21.
5---NAMBLA bulletin, April 1993, unsigned letter, p.12.
6---Leland Stevenson. "16th NAMBLA Confab Hits Chicago," NAMBLA bulletin, p. 7.
7---Gay Male S/M Activist flier, "Schedule of programs, Spring '93."
8---Tony Clark, "Warmth and Understanding for Boy-lovers at Paris ILGA
Conference," NAMBLA bulletin, September 1992, pp. 3-4.
9---ibid.
10---Photo of boyscouts: NAMBLA bulletin routinely publishes photos of young
boys, with a disclaimer that implies they do not need permission from the boys
or their parents. Most likely, boys who appear in the publication for the
interest of the readers, have no idea they will be published in a pederasty
magazine.
The article:
"A gay umbrella organization which has just been awarded consultative status
with a key United Nations body has denounced 'age of consent' laws and counts
NAMBLA and another pedophile group among its members, Lambda Report, has
learned. On July 30, the United States and 21 other member countries of the
U.N. Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) voted to give consultative status to
the International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA). The ECOSOC vote in
Geneva, Switzerland made ILGA the first homosexual group to be given such a
voice within the international body. An ILGA brochure describes the group as a
'worldwide federation of national and local groups dedicated to achieveing
lesbian and gay rights around the globe.' Besides the North American Man/Boy
Love Association (NAMBLA), the Belgium-based ILGA lists the Dutch pedophile
group Vereniging Martijn, as well as sadomasochist groups, among its members.
In 1990, ILGA passed a resolution under the heading 'Man/boy, woman/girl love'
that effectively recognized pedophiles as a 'sexual minority.' The resolution
states: "The ILGA calls on all the members to treat all sexual minorities with
respect and to engage in constructive dialogue with them.' The recognition of
pedophiles as a distinct 'sexual minority' is a key demand of advocates of
adult-child sex. By making claims as a 'minority,' pederasts can essentially
follow in the footsteps of homosexual activists and demand legal and societal
changes to guaranteee their 'rights.' Thus, 'pedophile rights' would follow in
the footsteps of 'gay rights.' Another ILGA resolution, arising from a
'Paedophila workshop,' states that 'in many countries existing laws on sexual
coercion and rules of evidence also often operation to oppress and not to
protect.' Such language parallels NAMBLA's own, which argues that
age-of-consent and other sex laws 'exploit' young boys and girls by infringing
upon their 'right' to be sexual beings. Homosexual activists praised the U.N.
decision to endorse ILGA. The Washington Blade reported August 20 that the
group's newly approved U.N. status will enable it to 'draw greater attention to
human rights abuses against gays' in various countries. 'The world community
has recognized---and rightly so---that lesbian and gay rights are human rights,
and that our movement has a valuable contribution to make in global human
rights work,' said ILGA secretary-general Hans Hyerpekjon, the Blade reported."
"NAMBLA and Human Rights:Of course, many Americans consider NAMBLA and
pedophiles in general a threat to the 'human race' and well being of children
and teens. NAMBLA defends sex between men and young boys and favors abolishing
all age of consent laws designed to protect minors. ---1
NAMBLA gives free memberships to prisoners---i.e., pederasts incarcerated for
child molestation and other sex crimes. The organization's newsletter, NAMBLA
Bulletin, frequently runs photos of scantily clad, prepubescent boys---often in
swimsuits. In October 1991, the Bulletin offered advice to 'boy lovers' on how
to avoid prosecution by the police. Readers were told not to 'keep the photos
of your partner in a place where police may not find them,' and to 'store
erotica someplace other than your home or office...' The same article advised
boys: 'You...can decide that you like having sex with men without becoming
their friend or lover.'---2
On December 29, 1982, founding NAMBLA member David Thorstad was asked on a
nationally televised talk show if a boy as young as nine years old 'is in a
position to give the consent to enter into a sexual relationship with a full
grown man.' Thorstad's response: 'Of course. They do it all the time. Why
not?...'---3
More recently, NAMBLA 'Collective' member Luis Miguelito de Argentina described
receiving oral sex from his 6 year old little brother.---4
And in April 1993, a NAMBLA letter writer from Nebraska wrote that his 'first
love proved to me that boys of 7-1/2 can be far from asexual,' although he now
'prefer[s] boys of ten or so.'---5
Although some members of NAMBLA have sought to recast the group's image as
favoring adult male sex with adolescent---as opposed to pre-adolescent---boys,
the attempt alienated other members. Thus NAMBLA passed a resolution at its
1992 annual membership conference to '[reaffirm] its acceptance of lovers of
boys of all ages and [urge] its spokespersons to support this point of
view.'---6
No information about the Dutch pedophile group Martijn was available at press
time. But NAMBLA member and Bulletin editor Bill Andriette told LR in an
interview that the Amersterdam-based group shares NAMBLA's goals.
NAMBLA, S/M group not defined:
On August 24, in response to a written request to the ILGA headquarters in
Brussels, Coordinator Micha Ramakers faxed the Lambda Report a list of the
organization's U.S. member groups. The ILGA document defined most of the
groups acronyms (e.g. NGLTF, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force), but
listed NAMBLA and a few other groups without explanation. One such group was
the GMSMA, the acronym for the Gay Male S/M Activists, based in New York City.
A recent flier for the sadomasochist group advertized such 'summer prgrams' as:
'Cross-Dressing and S/M,' 'Temperature Torture,' and 'Heavy Metal Bondage.'
The following course description was offered for the latter programs:
The feel of cold steel, the sound of a lock snapping shut, handcuffs,
leg irons and head cages. This program will be about using metal
restraints in bondage scenes. The focus will be on the kind of
equipment used, constructing manacles, shackles, and other heavy
metal bondage toys, and the pyschology of inescapiblitiy.---7
GMSMA Director Barry Douglas was the coordinator for the recent 'National S/M
Leather Fetish Conference' held in the nation's capital April 24, the day
before the homosexual 'March on Washington.' The S/M conference, held in a
federal building, featured the sale of electric devices, leather whips, and
other sadistic devices. Men engaged in periodic floggings of one another with
leather whips inside the building. In a second faxed letter to LR, Ramakers
said NAMBLA has been an ILGA member since 1984, stating on its application:
'NAMBLA's goals are to end longstanding oppression of men and boys involved in
any mutually consensual relationship' by, among other methods, 'educating the
public on the benevolent nature of man/boy love.' Ramakers said the issue of
pedophilia has been a point of controversy at past ILGA annual conferences, but
was not so at the most recent conference in Barcelona. He said he could not
envision ILGA kicking out NAMBLA from the organization, since 'it is extremely
difficult' to get an 80% majority vote to do so. Ramakers said pedophilia is
much less controversial in Europe than it is in the United States. He also
noted in his letter: 'The fact that a particular organization is a member of
the ILGA does not automatically mean the ILGA supports all its policies and
point of views.' He added that as an ILGA official, he couldnot criticize the
positions of NAMBLA or nay other member group.
NAMBLA Was First ILGA Member in U.S.
Although NAMBLA members complain regularly about their ostracism from society
and 'mainstream' gays, various NAMBLA members have had kind words for ILGA's
positions on pedophilia issues. Andriette told LR, 'I think ILGA has very
reasonable policies...in support of people's rights to have consensual sex and
I think we've probably been an influence on those policies.' Andriette, who
said he has attended two annual ILGA conference, said NAMBLA was a
'full-fledged member' of ILGA and neither it nor any other member is considered
a 'fringe' group within the overall organization. Indeed, according to a
Bulletin article about ILGA, 'for some time, NAMBLA was the only ILGA member
from the United States.'---8
NAMBLA's Tony Clark wrote in the Bulletin last year:
Not coincidentally, ILGA has consistently maintained positions that are
friendly to boylovers, including a condemnation of imprisonment of men
for making love to boys.
Clark said an attempt was made several years ago at the annual ILGA conference,
hld in Oslo, to repeal ILGA positions 'that support sex between man and
prepubescent boys.' But the effort failed when lobbying by the NAMBLA and
other 'friends of pedophiles' prevented the group from getting the 80% vote
necessary to change official ILGA positions. 'The forces hostile to pedophilia
are unable to rally the 80% majority so the favorable positions reman,' Clark
wrote.---9
ILGA has taken positions which condemn child abuse. A 1990 resolutions on
'children's rights' condemned 'the exploitative use of power differences to
coerce others into sexual relationships.' Another said that 'every child has
the right to protection from sexual exploitation and abuse, including
prostitution and involvement in pornography.' However, another ILGA
resolution under the same heading supported 'the right of every individual,
regardless of age, to explore and develop her or his sexuality.'
ECOSOC STatus A Propoganda Boon:
According to the U.N.-published book, 'Basic Facts About the United Nations,'
ECOSOC's 'functions and powers' include the following:
->"To promote respect for, and observance of, human rights and
fundamental freedoms for all;
->"To make or initiate studies and reports and make recommendations on
international economic, social, cultural, educational, health and
related matters;
->"To serve as the central forum for the discussion of international
economic and social issues of global or inter-disciplinary nature and
the formulation of policy recommendations on those issues addressed to
Member states and the United Nations system as a whole..."
Amb. Charles Lichenstein, the former Alternate U.S. Represenatitive to the
United Nations under President Reagan, told LR that the chief import of
achieving U.N./ECOSOC status is the propoganda value it brings to a group's
cause. 'It makes recommendations that are publicized all over the world,'
Lichenstein said. ILGA's Ramakers summed up the significance of the group's
new status in an interview: 'We now have direct access into the U.N. machinery,
whereas before we were always on the outside, knocking on the door. Now we're
into the system.' Juliania Pilon, a foreign policy specialist with the
International Foundation for Electoral Systems, based in Washington, said
winning ECOSOC consultative status is a 'really big deal' for any organization.
Pilon, a former Senior Policy Analyst with the Heritage Foundation's United
Nations Assessment Project, recalled that Heritage a conservative think tank,
once considered applying for ECOSOC, consultative status but pulled back in
the face of daunting requirements. The ECOSOC, which operates by consesus
among a rotating goup of member states, approved the ILGA application by a vote
of 22 to 4, which 17 nations abstaining. Besides the United Nations, the
Washington Blade reports that the following other countries voted to accredit
the ILGA: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Canada,
Chile, Cuba, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Peru,
Russia, Spain, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom. A member of the U.S.
delegation to the U.N. told LR that the United States' representative had no
information about ILGA's controversial member groups prior to casting a vote
giving it ECOSOC status. 'We did not knowit at the time,' said the official,
speaking on background. Although successful in its U.N. consultancy bid, ILGA
had to settle for a compromise that gave it basic 'roster' status, enabling it
to submit written statements to the ECOSOC bodies, the Blade reported. Rina
Molonzo, an ILGA official in New York City, told the Blade that ILGA will now
lobby for 'Category II' and then 'Category I' status, which would allow it to,
respectfully, request hearings and ultimately propose agenda items at the U.N.
The July 30 vote culminated a decade-long lobbying effort by the ILGA to secure
the coveted United Nations affiliation. Lambda Report contacted ECOSOC
officials in the United Nations on the question of ILGA pedophile ties, but was
told that it could only submit questions in writing, thus preventing a comment
for this article.
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Recently, I spoke to a friend who is still in highschool. He told me something
that utterly shocked me.
He said that the school board just passed a rule that Heterosexuals can no
longer show general displays of affection (hand holding, hugging, kissing) in
attempt to not offend the Homosexuals in the schools. He said there was no
mention of the Homosexuals not doing the same things in the offending of
heterosexuals.
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From Dr. James Dobson, April 1993.
He states:
"As public universities exercize tighter and tighter control on politically
correct thought, they seem entirely disinterested in student sexual activity
and other behavior with moral implications. Indeed, the word morality itself
implies a value judgment that violates P.C. "theology."
"As for sexual behavior on other campuses, consider these illustrations:
1) Cornell University's Student Assembly recently recommended that a dormitory
wing be reserved in promoting "gay, lesbian, and bisexual awareness." Cornell
President Frank Rhodes has 30 days to decide on the proposal.
Source: Hilary Appelman, "Cornell University President Considering Gay Living
Unit Proposal, " The Associated Press, March 24, 1993.
2) Since last fall, about 20 students at the University of Massachusetts at
Amherst have lived in a gay-lesbian-bisexual "corridor." The University of
California has about 40 students living in two gay "theme" dormitories, and
Rutgers University started a gay studies living unit for about 10 students this
year. The idea is spreading.
Source: Ibid.
3) A study at the University of Texas student health center revealed nearly one
in 100 students seeking medical care is infected with the virus that causes
AIDS.
Source: Scott W. Wright, "1 in 100 tested at UT has AIDS Virus, " Austin
American Statesman, July 14, 1991, p.A14.
(observations:
a) 1 in every 100 students was infected? Hmmm. Let's go back:
>Researchers at the Seattle-based Battelle
>Human Affairs Research Center found that 1.1% of men between the ages of 20-39
>had participated exclusively in homosexual relationships over the last 10
>years.
b) And this is at the the University of Texas. Dallas (although
not the city for the University) did have a 60% HIV infection among homosexuals
at clinics. Let's go back:
>In a medical journal called "Sexually Transmitted
>Diseases," it showed that in NY, homosexuals who visited clinics and were
>tested for HIV infection had a 52% infection rate. In Dallas, it was 60%.
Conclusion: Same vicinity.
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From Atlantic Monthly, April 1993 "Dan Quayle Was Right" by Barbara Defoe
Whitehead.
The article generally talks about the causes and effects of single parent
homes, but it did make general implications to ALTERNATIVE Parenting and ANY
family without 2 biological parents. For example, B.D. Whitehead states:
"Yet it is also risky to ignore the issue of changing family structure."
"If we fail to come to terms with the relationship between family structure and
declining child well-being, then it will be increasingly difficult to improve
the children's life prospects, no matter how many new programs the federal
government funds."
"The social arrangement that has proved MOST successful in ensuring the
physical survival and promoting of social development of the child IS the
family unit of the BIOLOGICAL mother AND father. Consequently, any event that
permanently denies a child the presense and protection of a parent jeopardizes
the life of the child."
"For the first time in history the vast majority of the nation's children could
expect to live with married biological parents throughout childhood."
(an observation...if a gay couple is raising a child, only one at the most
could be biological to the child)
"In many single-parent (speaking of one biological parent) families, children
must come to terms with the parent's love life and romantic partners. Some
children live with cohabiting couples, either their own unmarried parents or a
biological parent and a live-in partner."
(an observation: In a lesbian or gay parenting family, only on is biological,
and therefore the other one is a live-in partner--being that homosexual
marriages havn't been legistlated. Let's see, what percentage of homosexual
relationships are monogamous? Let's go back:
>(A 1981
>study found only 2% to be "near monogamous," i.e. with 10 or fewer partners in a
>lifetime.)"
Being that homosexual relationships are monogamous only 2% of the time, that
sure leaves children a good future doesn't it---apart from the fact that this
kind of relationship has been clearly proven to be detrimental to a child's
well being anyway. Let's go back:
>"The social arrangement that has proved MOST successful in ensuring the
>physical survival and promoting of social development of the child IS the
>family unit of the BIOLOGICAL mother AND father. Consequently, any event that
>permanently denies a child the presense and protection of a parent jeopardizes
>the life of the child.")
Other quotes from Atlantic Monthly, April '93, by Whitehead:
"Given its dramatic impact on children's lives, one might reasonably expect
that this historic level of family disruption would be viewed with alarm, even
regarded as a national crisis. Yet this has not been the case. In recent
years some people have argued that these trends pose a serious threat to
children and to the nation as a whole, but they are dismissed as declinists,
pessimists, or nostalgists, unwilling or unable to accept new facts of life."
"There are several reasons why this is so, but the fundamental reason is that
at some point in the 1970s American changed their minds about the meaning of
these DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIORS."
(an observation: 1970s? Hmm...What would offset this do you suppose. Let's go
back:
>The APA no longer considers Homosexuality as a mental or sexual disorder, and
>counseling should be done to encourage the gay or the lesbian to pursue their
>sexual orientation. In 1973, however, the APA's decision was not based only on
>objective study or on the review of data, and on mutually normal discussion.
>It was as a result of cohersive, shock tactics combined with intimidation and
>destructive behavior that broke up meetings of the members of the APA and a
>conserted, politicized campaign to revamp the diagnostic status of
>homosexuality.
>Joe Dallas states, "In '73, the general meeting of the APA was swarmed with gay
>activists, who threatened to disrupt the proceedings, and who were abetted by
>progay psychologists and who joined forces to assentially FORCE a decision on
>the APA's part to reconsider the diagnostic status of Homosexuality. The
>voting board of the APA did decide at that time to remove Homosexuality from
>the list of diagnoses.
Conclusion, with the pressure and the propoganda from the homosexual community
and other small pressure groups, do you suppose that this is why Americans
changed their minds, just like the APA did, and even for the fact that the APA
did.
Note what I said before.
> Homosexual activists are
>trying to change society as we know it---Institutions, the family, children,
>societal structures, all on the back of Civil Rights.
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Here is a good example of the desentization that the homosexual community uses
to push their agenda. See if the following is about Civil Rights or behavior.
The Year of the Queer, I was there. By Bob Larson:
"It started with a deafening roar from the women's motorcycle contingent. They
called themselves "Dykes on Bikes." Most of them wore a little more than
leather chaps and tatoos. It was the 24th annual, Lesbian/Gay Freedom Day
Parade. Needless to say, I was shocked and appalled by what I witnessed. It
was the world's largest gay event, 400,000 observers, 240 contingents, and
20,000 participants. It stretched out for 2 miles. The theme
was 'The Year of the Queer.' That was their term, not mine. According to the
San Francisco press, there seemed to be a better mood than the previous ones,
fewer hostile watchers who took offense to gay hand holding, and nipple rings.
That tells me something. In the era of the Clinton crowd, this era is one in
which Americans have become more desensitized than ever to immoral lifestyles.
No wonder the mood was upbeat. The homosexual community has something to be
happy about. They are celebrating the year of the queer, a year that has seen
the election of a pro-gay president. There is even a cover story on lesbians
in NewsWeek. There has been a spirited debate over ending the ban on gays in
the military and openly gay Roberta Actinburg has been appointed by President
Clinton is under secretary of the department of Housing and Urban
Development. Sticking out his chest in full pride for all to see, strutting
down the street in high-heeled shoes, they celebrated the largest tourist
attraction in the city of San Francisco. It was held on the weekend closest
to the anniversary of the protest and riot that followed a 1969 police raid on
the Stonewall Bar in NYC. The Stonewall Riots led by Drag Queens are widely
regarded as the start of the modern gay rights movement. However, out of the
400,000 people who were there, San Francisco mayor Frank Jordan was not there.
Just before the parade began, Jordan abruptly cancelled his plans to ride in it
because several groups threatened to protest his presence, groups like "Act up"
threatened demonstrations protesting Mayor Jordan's proposed budget, which
they were concerned cut deeply into programs for AIDS patients. And GET
THIS, these individuals who wish special rights, who would have us to believe
that they are just like the rest of us, peaceful, loving, patriotic Americans
so concerned the police that they believed Mayor Jordan's life was in danger
if he participated in the parade. And one of the things that upset
them was the fact that Jordan had appointed to the Human Rights Commission a
minister who had said, "The gay lifestyle was an abomination against God." Now
get this folks, a minister in America could not clearly speak his mind without
bringing down such wrath that the mayor feared for his life. The man was the
pastor of Ebeneezer Baptist Church and he stood by his comments. He said,
"It's sad people have AIDS but it says right there in Scripture that the
homosexual lifestyle is an abomination against God and I have to preach that
Homosexuality is a sin." Well, the people representing the gay community came
back and declared that he had no place on a commission that they said,
"was established to ensure that all San Franciscans are accorded full equality,
dignity, and respect." What exactly went on? Well, as I said, the parade was
kicked off by 300 partially-clad dykes on Harleys, Hondas, BMWs and Yamahas.
Men in drag marched the whole parade in 5 inch heals. Talk about blisters,
let alone some sore calves afterward. One drag queen in heels sprinted the
whole parade route. Parade spectators punched their fists in the air
continually yelling out "WORK IT GIRL! WORK IT GIRL!" to the Dykes on Bikes,
"WORK IT GIRL!" I spotted one female spectator on the parade route getting
excited by these dykes on bikes. As they came roaring by, she would pull up
her T-shirt exposing her naked breasts. She even dropped her shorts down
around here ankles and gyrated her body, screaming "WORK IT GIRL!" She
challenged some of the Dykes on Bikes to take it off. Gays dressed in female
cheerleader uniforms ran twittering down the streets waving their pom-poms,
pursing their bubble gum pink lipstick painted lips.
And instead of balloons, paraders threw condoms in the crowd.
One gay male had condoms neatly tucked into his g-string. And as
he walked pass the spectators, he would have gay men standing on the side
lines slowly pull the condoms out of the g-string and whistle while they did
it. One person was wearing a costume constructed of a 6 foot cardboard box that
was painted to look like a movie camera with the title "The Gay Agenda" painted
on it. CHILDREN by the thousands watched the parade. They nonchalantly
blew bubbles. Some marched with other parade revellers. They should have been
terrified, but they weren't. And people dying of AIDS were pushed in
wheelchairs down the parade route. I remember seeing one of them, an AIDS
victim so weak, he was prone in this special wheelchair that was kind of made
itself into a bed. His 80 lb skeletal frame was draped in a flimsy yellow
sunflower dress. That's right! He was dressed in drag, dying, as he feebly
smiled, waved a flag at the crowd. The lesbian who was in charge of lining up
the participants in the parade wore a transparent body stocking. You could see
everything, inducing 100s of bloody welts produced by ripped skin. I am
talking about her rear, her thighs, her buttocks. It even looked like there
were baseball-induced bruises on her lower thighs. Her nipples were pierced.
One of her friends approached her and instead of telling her to go to a doctor
for having been sadomasochistically beaten by another lesbian, she just wished
her a Happy Birthday. Many women wore spike dog collars. That's it! That's
all! Nothing! Nothing else, but a pair of panties, just a spiked dog
collar. Many of the lesbians, had tatoos. Most of them had pierced nipples.
How do I know? Their breasts were exposed. They wore lace, leather, feathers,
body stockings, hats, torn Levis, fish net stockings, spandex, latex, vinyl
reptile skin, you name it. One of the lesbians wore a topless wedding gown.
Sensuality was the name of the game. Many lesbians hugged, kissed, licked each
other, french-kissed, grabbed each other's breasts, buns, and crotches.
One lesbian drug her girlfriend behind her on a leash, like a dog. The
lesbian in submission was topless. She wore a leather harness that bound
her arms behind her back. Both has pierced breasts and noses. A couple of
lesbians wore viper black leather jackets. It said, "Vipers" and they fondled
each others breasts, and imitated sex by rhythmically rubbing each others'
pelvises up and down against each other, moaning, clutching against the other for
better friction.
Then one of them grabbed the other's naked rear and dug her long
blood red finger nails into the flesh. They flicked their tongues at each
other and stuck their tongues down each others' throats. I remember one
particularly disturbing lesbian couple. One of them was topless with pierced
nipples, clad and a sadomasochistic leather outfit. They had brought along
their 10 year old daughter who looked just like an average little girl, except
she WAS IN LESBIAN LEATHER. She rode on the bicycle with her 2 mothers, her
barbie dolls hanging from one of the saddle bags on mom's Harley.
Bullwhips were the accessory of the day.
Lesbians whipped each other with their 20 foot long bullwhips. The
lesbians continually referred to each other as "BITCH! BITCH!
BITCH!" It says something about their interpersonal relationships. One
lesbian grabbed her friend and pulled up her shirt to reveal her lover's pierced
nipples. Then she said, "Just think, Lynne is a pharmacist." The men had on
jewelry, high heels, wigs, stockings, bras, dresses, and full stage makeup.
Who marched in the parade? That was interesting! Main stream America was
represented. There were Homosexual paramedics, the San Francisco Fire
Department was there, the gay and lesbian fire fighters with their dalmatians
led the way and danced sensuously on top of a SF fire truck. One of the
antigades projects, contingents was represented by a float with men dancing in
g-strings and bustieas (sp). There was even a group of nuns who marched with a
sign that said, "NUNS SAY NO TO NUNN," referring to Senator Sam Nunn. One
group was called the "Bay Area Young Positives." There were lesbians and
gays 26 years and younger who danced suggestively on a float. There was a
group of "Straights for gay rights," a group of parents and friends of
lesbian lovers. The families walked along side their gay children, hand in hand
with their gay children who were hand in hand with their lovers. One mother had
a sign that read, "WE LOVE OUR LESBIAN DAUGHTER." There was a group of
homosexual parents. They called themselves "The San Francisco Baby Group."
They wheeled infants in strollers. One carried a sign that read, "HATE IS NOT
A FAMILY VALUE." There were lesbian physicians, homosexual lawyers, gay bar
patrons. One of these groups had a float with a life-sized Jesus on a cross
and the homosexuals on the float danced like Roman revellers.
The San Francisco police department and its gay division was represented.
So were the CALIFORNIA TEACHERS ASSOCIATION
and should we be surprised, the NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION,
Latino Lesbians and Bisexuals for Political Action, the Asian-Pacific Lesbian
Alliance, the United Farm Workers Gay and Lesbians, even a contingency of gay
American legionnaires, Gay Lesbian Therapists Association, a Journal
Association, and FLAG (Federal Lesbian and Gay Employees), even gay employees of
AT&T, and as they passed by, they would say, "WE'LL PAY YOU $75 TO SWITCH."
There were the "Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence" as they called themselves, Drag
Queens dressed as nuns, and the Janus Society, who believe sadomasochism
should be the order of the day. The slogans were interesting. I saw signs,
pictures, T-shirts that said, "2, 4, 6, 8, MANY OF US AREN'T STRAIGHT,"
said by CALIFORNIA TEACHERS ASSOC., bragging about HOMOSEXUALITY BEING
TAUGHT IN THE CLASSROOMS IN FRONT OF YOUR CHILDREN. One man carried a sign
that said, "I WANT TO SHOWER WITH A TERRIFIED MARINE." Another carried a sign
showing a man masturbating and they intended to have a pun, tongue-in-cheek, on
the subject of stopping AIDS. It was a "Stop AIDS project." So they showed
the picture of the man masturbating with the sign saying "BEAT IT LONG! BEAT IT
HARD! BEAT IT GOOD! BEAT AIDS!" Get it? "DYKES TAKE OVER THE WORLD!" said
one sign. Another one said "F___ YOUR OWN GENDER." "HATE IS NOT A FAMILY
VALUE." One contingent chanted "2, 4, 6, 8, HOW DO YOU KNOW YOUR GRANDMOTHER
IS STRAIGHT." These were the gay and lesbian seniors. These were the old
folks. The gay therapist chanted "2, 4, 6, 8, DON'T ASSUME YOUR SHRINK IS
STRAIGHT." And there was even a group of gay bankers that chanted "2, 4, 6, 8,
HOW DO YOU KNOW YOUR BANK IS STRAIGHT?" You don't think they want to recruit
and proselytize. One sign said, "GET YOUR WHOLE FAMILY OUT OF THE CLOSET."
Another sign said, "LEGALIZE GAY AND LESBIAN ADOPTIONS." A lesbian-gay parent-
ing group walked hand in hand with small children. T-shirts said, "I'M THE MOM,
SO IS SHE." One gay-parent group carried a sign that said, "WE LOVE OUR GAY
AND LESBIAN CHILDREN AND GOD DOES TOO." Favorite T-shirts were the picture
of Tipper and Hillary having lesbian sex. There were signs that said "EAT (and
it was a reference---a term I won't use---to the vagina), not cows." There was
a contingent of vagitarians, as they called themselves. Not
vegetarians---vagitarians. Think about the sickness of that. One T-shirt
said, "I CAN'T EVEN MARCH STRAIGHT." Another one that I won't even explain to
you because it is too disgusting to me, "Eroticize my fist." I will only tell
you that it is in reference to one of the homosexual practices of inserting
the fist and the arm into the anus of a lover for sexual excitement. One
lesbian had a sign with a meat tenderizer attached to it. It read, "FUTURE PTA
MEMBER." In celebration of gay parenting, they carried plackers showing sperm.
The sign read, "NO SACRED SPERM." Two lesbians, who were cheered wildly,
walked down the street, holding a sign between them that on the front read,
"LONG TERM RELATIONSHIP, 10 YEARS TOGETHER" and on the back it read "STILL
DOING IT AFTER ALL THESE YEARS." Now contemplate that for a moment. Long term
love. Get it? With the gays and lesbians, a long term relationship is ten
years. That is their idea of a long term relationship. And these are the
people who want to force employers to provide death, health, bereavement,
medical benefits to gays who have lovers. And how many times are they planning
on switching lovers, and how many kinds of domesticated relationships would an
employer have to underwrite. Can you imagine the legal and litigious nightmare
that would exist. The rainbow is everywhere. It has become a sign of the gay
community embracing every form of sexuality imaginable. The promise of God,
the Noaic covenant, the rainbow has now been turned into a homosexual symbol.
How sad! What else did I see? Topless lesbians draped with fruit, a
crucified, nude woman depicted on the back of a man's black, leather jacket,
jumbo-sized lesbians with nipple rings, medieval dress on a sadomasochistic
biker gay man, a sign on the back of a dyke on bike that read, "NO GUILT."
Truer to life and Scripture than they could imagine, with some lesbians wearing
signs that read, "DAMNED LESBIAN." There were lesbians carrying children,
lesbians leading their lovers by chain, lesbians fondling other lesbians,
lesbians as vampires. I walked up to one lesbian, topless with nipple rings,
who had her front teeth cosmetically altered to create 2 fangs. They were
permanent. She didn't just have them for the event. "What do you do with
them?" I asked. She said, "What do you think I do to my lover?" She bit her
own arm and drew blood. I saw women biting the necks of other women to draw
blood. Perhaps most disturbing with the gay and lesbian parenting groups,
pushing little children in strollers, they carried a sign which read, "WE
PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE RAINBOW FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO
THE DIVERSITY FOR WHICH IT STANDS, WORKING TOGETHER IN DIGNITY AND LOVE WITH
LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL." One car, driven by a gay man, has a liscense
plate that read "PROM QUEEN." One man had a giant dildo, a mock penis, that
extended about 3 feet. There was a contingent of gay witches, that had a
banner with a pentagram on it that said, "Witches heal." Two gay guys marched
down the street in high-heels, constantly kissing one another, carrying a sign
that said, "DON'T ASK. IT'S CLEAR. WE'RE QUEER. DON'T TELL. THANK GOD, WE'RE
GAY." There were gyas who were dressed as monks, a horned-man standing next to
a nude woman, a man dressed as a giant, yellow condom, a gay parent with a sign
that said, "I RAISED MY CHILD WITH LOVE AND PRIDE, AND ON THIS DAY, I'M ON HER
SIDE. WITH HER LOVER WE MARCH TODAY TO TELL THE WORLD I'M PROUD THEY'RE GAY."
Signs said, "LEGALIZE GAY AND LESBIAN ADOPTIONS" "LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE"
"GOD LOVES GAYS" "SUPPORT DOMESTIC PARTNERSHIPS" "REPEAL SODOMY LAWS" and
there were the gay and lesbian avengers who carried signs that read (making no
bones about it), "WE RECRUIT!!" There was a man who had a g-string with a
string attached to the end of his penis. Men led other men in dog collars by
chains. There was a naked lesbian on stilts, who had other lesbians walk under
her legs faining her you know what. I saw one man on a float wearing something
which barely covered his genitals. He stuck his finger in his mouth and licked
his anus with it. There were many in wheelchairs, AIDS victims who looked like
they were ready to die. It could only happen in America. There were visitors
from other countries. Their comments were rather interesting. One man was
from England. He said, "THIS WOULD NEVER HAPPEN IN ENGLAND!" A man from
South Africa said, "THIS WOULD NEVER HAPPEN IN SOUTH AFRICA IN A MILLION
YEARS!" A young girl from Spain said, "GAY COUPLES IN SPAIN DON'T HAVE THIS
KIND OF FREEDOM." After what I have just described to you, listen now to who
else was represented. Roberta Actinburg, the woman nominated by Bill Clinton,
the President of the United States, as undersecretary for the Department of
Housing and Urban Development. She received the longest and the loudest cheers
and she has a gay lover, has been pictured with her gay lover, and is the top
official ever appointed to a government post by a president, who has declared
themselves openly gay or lesbian. One of the local reporters said of her
appearence, "IT WAS ALL VERY SWEET AND GOOD NATURED, JUST LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE
ABOUT THE PARADE. JESSE HELMS WOULDN'T SHOW MOMENTS LIKE THESE ON HIS VIDEO
TAPE." This is the woman who tried to stop funding of the Boy Scouts because
they didn't allow homosexuals. Bob Hatoi, assistant to the President,
surrounding by Secret Service men, rode in the back of an open convertible with
his lover. Hatoi is dying of AIDS. He has a gay lover. They openly displayed
their affections before the hundreds of thousands who were gathered there. He
represented the President of the United States, and the sign on the side of the
car said so. Keith Minoll (sp), petty officer, kicked out of the Navy, fought
it in the courts, who came out of the closet on National television rode in a
yellow convertible with a liscense plate that read, "That boy!" The SF
Sheriff was there. Folks, perhaps most disgusting was to see the endorsement
of what took place from a political standpoint. I watched this for 4 solid
hours. I took scores of pictures to document what I had seen. For the most
part were freely taken and the people who were marching would stop in the
middle of the street and pose for me suggestively. At one point, 2 topless,
nipple pierced, leather clad lesbians decided they would put on a public
display of sadomasochism. One of them leaned over, exposed her buttocks,
grabbed her ankles while the other took out a 20 foot bull whip and began to
beat her. I started taking pictures of it. I was attacked. What was
interesting is that about 45 minutes earlier I had turned to my wife who was
with me and said, "WATCH THAT MAN OVER THERE." Do you know how I have
explained to you how some homosexuals become demon possessed because of their
conduct, and how I have dealt with them and learned to spot them, "THAT MAN HAS
A DEMON." Well, I became so preoccupied with taking the photographs and with
taking notes about what I saw going on I had forgotten to keep an eye on this
guy. And the next thing I know, him and his lover were accosting me
physically. They threatened my wife physically. They grabbed and threatened
me physically. They screamed and yelled that I was a hatemonger. And what
angered them was that I was taking a picture of two topless lesbians beating
each other with bullwhips. And he said to me, 'ARE YOU GOING TO SHOW THAT TO
THE REST OF THE COUNTRY?' Now this was being done on Market Street, the
financial center of SF, in front of 400,000 people and he was worried that the
rest of the country was going to see this. He said, "YOU JUST WANT TO SEE THE
NEGATIVE SIDE OF THIS." I said, "EXCUSE ME, WHERE WAS THE POSITIVE SIDE?" If
this went on, why should I not be allowed to show it? I said to him as they
accosted me, "HEY I'M ON A PUBLIC STREET. THIS IS AMERICA. GET YOUR HANDS OFF
ME," at which point they jammed my camera, ripped the film out of it and threw
it into the crowd. "YOU'LL NEVER SHOW THAT FILM TO AMERICA," they bragged.
My wife became frightened. A riot was about to erupt. She frantically looked
about for a police officer. There was none in sight. In fact, we had to walk
over a mile afterwards to find a police officer. Police officers were
stationed at the end and the beginning of the parade, 2 miles apart, and I
walked the entire parade route and never saw another cop. Now imagine, 400,000
people, not one police officer. And imagine would you, if on any other day at
any other time a woman walked topless down the street OR if a man with his
penis in clear view were to march down market street, they would be arrested
for indecent exposure. But this was a moral free zone. Ironically some signs
said, "HATE FREE ZONE." But the hate directed toward me, the violence directed
toward me was vicious, and I knew we were in trouble. I managed to get my
camera back, tried to get them to calm down. They threatened to beat me, I got
free, ran across the street, we jumped a fence, and lost ourselves in the
crowd. By the way, it wasn't the only time I was accosted. At one point and
must have bumped a young lady standing next to me. I don't know that I did but
I must have. I guess my camera must have bumped into her. The next thing I
knew, a 4 foot 10 inch butched dyke screamed four letter words at me and
doubled up her fists and started punching me in the chest. "YOU BUMPED MY
WIFE," she screamed. What do you do in a situation like that? You don't hit a
woman! You can't fight back. And she was encouraging the crowd, as the others
were, to attack me. Naturally I backed off. The gays would have you to
believe that they are kind, loving, peaceful people, only interested in
achieving equality. I'll tell you this. What I saw was an environment of
HATE, hatred toward decency, hatred toward Godliness, hatred toward anything
that represented normalacy. And maybe one of the most ironic signs that they
carried said "LOVE YOUR BODY!" Love your body? Love your body so much that
you are willing to risk killing it from AIDS. It was an incredibly sensual
environment. Stroking, patting, licking, touching, feeling. This parade is
about sex, because the gay community is about sex. That's its obsession. Some
homosexuals were handsome. Some were ugly. Some were sweet. Some were mean.
But I guess if I had to describe the dominant attitude, it had nothing to do
with equality and beauty, it was defiance, it was "IN YOUR FACE." The smell of
pot and half digested booze permeated the air and hung there sickningly. The
smell made you nauseas. I suppose the alcohol gave them some liquid courage to
literally let it all hang out. And you know by the time I had watched this for
4 hours, normal and weird, straight and gay became blurred and even "I" was a
victim of descensitization, because you have seen so much of this for 4 solid
hours and it so sickened you emotionally, spiritually, physically, you just
can't cope with it anymore. It goes into a kind of ammoral haze. After a
while, you literally couldn't tell who was male, who was female. The women who
were lesbians seemed to want to pride themselves in their freedom, in their
femininity, and yet they showed it by beating each other with bullwhips. The
signs and slogans on posters and T-shirts continually extolled love, but what I
saw were cheap sexual thrills and degredation. The word love was there because
the forces of darkness compelling all this wanted to make it all look
acceptible. But it really didn't look like love, and it didn't feel like love.
It wasn't love that caused women to beat other women. It wasn't love that made
men lead other men down the streets in dog collars. It was brutalization and
exploitation. For 4 hours, nothing was private. Nothing sexual was special.
Anything that had to do with the human body or human intimacy was raw, exposed,
and disrespected. Maybe, one of the flyers handed out said it all, "PROTECT
YOUR RIGHTS!" And what were the rights they demanded? Here's what it is all
about folks. I read to you from the flyer. 1)marriage 2)living together
3)children 4)adoption 5)surrogacy 6)Foster parenting 7)guardianship
8)Powers of attourney 9)artificial insemination 10)insurance 11)state
planning 12)renting/buying property 13)child custody. Those are the special
rights they want accorded without the recognition of heterosexual monogamy.
But the Word of God says very plainly in Leviticus 18 "Thou shalt not lie with
man kind like with woman kind. It is an abomination." Jude 6-7 "Even the
cities of Sodom and Gommorah gave them selves to fornication and went after
strange flesh are set forth as an example, having suffered the vengence of
eternal fire." Genesis 1 says, "God created man in his own image male and
female." The year of the queer was an attempt to blur that distinction and
commit the ultimate blasphemy. For just as man's relationship to God is spoken
of in the New Testiment in conjugal terms, Christ is the groom turning for the
church, the bride, so it is that Satan wishes to, in these last days, blur that
line of gender identification distinction because it mocks the heart of the
gospel, the consumative relationship, spiritually speaking, between Christ and
his church, the spiritual intimacy by which we know him is ridiculed by the
suggestion that a man may sexually co-habit with a man and a woman with a
woman. And only those who know the mercy and grace of Jesus Christ will be
able to carry a message to Bill Clinton's homosexual America that they don't
have to belong to the Year of the Queer, that they can be apart of the Kingdom
of God, set free from the bounds of perversion by the mercy and grace and the
victory given to us by his death, burial, and resurrection.
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New Gay Magazine Publishes National Directory of Public Sex Spots: 'Steam' list
may include your favorite park or department store.
Source: The Lambda Report, Sept. 1993/ Steam magazine
"City of [....] Rest Area. On the north bank of the [....] River, just
just off Hwy. [....], at the foot of the [....] bridge, on the parklike
historic Fort [....]. Most gay activity goes on along the river, under
bridge, and around a pond known as 'Crazy Lake.' Look for the
discarded rubbers. Police authorities are aware, but seldom molest
discreet cruisers. Gate is locked at sundown; not recommended after
dark, due to drug activity."
"The above is an excerpt from the current issue of STEAM, a new quarterly
journal dedicated unapologetically to 'gay and bisexual men with an interest in
public and semi-public sex.' One of STEAM's regular features is a national
directory of meeting places to help gays locate partners for anonymous sexual
encounters. The directory in isue number two, entitled 'Outdoor Action: Summer
1993,' lists hundreds of sex spots in outdoor areas like public parks or under
bridges, as well as various 'tearooms' in shopping malls and department stores.
'Tearooms' are public men's rest rooms where homosexuals meet to have anonymous
sex with each other. STEAM's readers are credited for supplying most of the
information in the magazine.
"With the flippant disclaimer, 'It is not our intent to encourage illegal
activity (much as we may enjoy it ourselves),' the magazine's editors offer
tips on where and when partners for anonymous encounters can be located, and
which areas are more risky due to police patrols.
"STEAM lists 'tearooms' allegedly located inside famous department store
chains, including Bloomingdale's Sears, J.C. Penny, and Hecht's, as well as
those in malls and shopping centers across the country.
"The name J.C. Penny appears several times in STEAM's listings, in various
states---a shock for Penny's spokesman Duncan Muir, who told LR he had no idea
why the company was named. 'We certainly do not condone having our company's
name used in this listing.' said Muir.
"'J.C. Penny is aware of this problem in some our stores and has been taking
appropriate action,' he said. 'We will not olerate it and will do everything
in our power to prevent it. We will do what is reasonable in each individual
situation, ranging from randomly monitoring rest rooms to calling in local
police for assistance.'
"For their part, STEAM's editors (Scott O'Hara is publisher and editor) condemn
any notion---even from so called 'assimilationist' gays---that their cause is
wrong. Under the headline 'Gay/Sexual Pride,' an unsigned editorial in the
summer issue outlines STEAM's credo:
We believe sex is natural, beautiful, and generally a good thing,
whether in public or private. We believe 'The Public'...to get over
it---because we've always had sex in public, we always will, and it's
obscene than reading a book...
"Further on, STEAM's editorialist writes that 'Gay Pride' means much more than
attending an annual parade:
It's what you do about your sexuality the other 364 days of the year
that matters in your psyche. And hiding your sex in a darkened
with drawn curtains, doesn't strike me as an indicator of a healthy
mind in a healthy body. 'Flaunting it' on the beach, in a park, in a
tearoom, or on the street, whether with your lover or with a lovable
stranger---now there's my idea of real Gay Pride.
"The directory, if it is to be taken seriously, is a clear indication that
anonymous homosexual acts are literally going on all around us. Yet many gay
activists dismiss the notion that the homosexuals as a group are more
promiscuous than heterosexuals.
"While some of STEAM's listings are identifiable gay bars and bathhouses, the
vast majority are rest areas and public parks---the places many people choose
for family outings. More than half of the areas listed are outdoors, where the
reader is instructed to follow paths through the bushes to a certain site where
other homosexuals are likely to be waiting.
"Tips like 'Look for the discarded rubbers' expose a significant health
risk---e.g. to children who may wander innocently into a sex area and com in
contact with AIDS-infected condoms left behind from a gay orgy the night
before.
"Typical of STEAM's evaluations of local police are the following: 'Police make
regular sweeps, but usually just tell guys to 'move along'' and 'Closes at 11pm
and the police do cruise through after that, and they can get very nasty,'"
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Gay Hate Crimes (and Hateful Speech)
The Lambda Report
September 1993
"Homosexual columnist Dan Savage of the Seattle newspaper The Stranger let
loose another barrage of prank and hate calls after printing Lambda Report's
toll-free number in his column.
"After receiving copies of LR's first two issues, Savage (who earlier maligned
LR's publishers, the Report) wrote that the newsletter is full of 'lies, hate,
distortion, and bullsh__ about queers.' He was particularly upset by LR's
regular column 'Gays can Change,' which he said features the 'stories of
serious[ly] twisted, self hating...ex-gay guys.' Savage said 'sexual
orientation' is 'immutable' and that former homosexuals have merely 'stopped
having sex.'
"The gay writer's column, entitled 'Savage Love,' fell short of its billing.
Savage encouraged his readers to call LR's 800-number with 'hot tips' about
homosexuality. He told non-gays to call and 'let LR know that not all breeders
[heterosexuals] are small-minded, homophobic, rightwing, flat-earth
motherf___ers.' Savage also advised callers to use a pay phone if they didn't
want their number traced, warning that hang-ups and harrassing calls were
illegal.
"The latter advice went unheeded. In the hours and days after Savage's column
hit the streets, the LR was pestered with hang-up calss and those from people
who said they dialed only to make LR pay for the call. Some phoned in
repeatedly for that purpose. The campaign went national after Savage's column
was reprinted by a gay activist over the computer bulletin board 'Internet.'
"A smattering of callers talked civilly with LR personnel, but most were intent
on heckling or worse. Several men made crude references to gay sex acts that
simply cannot be printed here. Below is just a sampling of the Savage-inspired
fare:
->'What you're doing borders on the illegal.'
->'God loves you even though you're a pile of sh__.'
->'We know who you are. We're watching you...'
One caller who volunteered that he makes upward of $70,000 a year scolded LR
for encouraging 'discrimination' against homosexuals. When it was suggested
that he and other gays were excelling in the workplace without special
protections, he became irate.
"A special letter-to-the-editor by an elderly Iowa man earned him the type of
harrassment from gay activists that will make him 'couch his words' the next
time he complains about anything pro-gay. Of course, that is the goal of
homosexual intimidators.
"Harold Smith---a pseudonym for the actual writer, who asked LR not to use his
real name---wrote the Des Moines Register newspaper in March and complained
about an article by reporter Elliot Nusbaum. It ridiculed, among other things,
the concerns of citizens over the showing of a film depicting male homosexual
sex acts to University of Iowa students.
"Smith, a Des Moines resident wrote the Register saying that Nusbaum's article
'could have been authored for the shoddy sheets of the Washington Blade,'
D.C.'s homosexual newspaper, in that it 'extolled the underground virtues of
sexual degeneracy versus the sins of organized religions...'
"After his letter---and address---were published in the Register, Smith
received an angry call from a gay man who protested that he and his boyfriend
attend church every Sunday. Smith said the man started 'haranguing' him told
the homosexual lifestyle is wrong.
"About 15 minutes later, Smith said a pizza delievery truck arrived at his door
asking payment for a pricey pizza he never ordered. A few minutes later,
another delivery truck from a different pizza chain arrived, also carrying an
unrequested pizza.
"Within about 10 minutes of the second bogus delivery, Smith received a phone
call from a woman who blurted out, 'Well, how did you like your pizza?' and
then hung up. He and his wife presumed the call was an angry lesbian. The
elderly couple received a few more harrassing phone calls the Sunday the articl
appeared.
"In the future, Smith said, 'I would still write but I'd certainly have to
couch my words more...I don't relish the thought of receiving any more
harrassment, and who knows what extent it will go.'"
"The phone message on William Devlin's answering machine is a distressing sign
of the times:
'Hello this is Bill Devlin. If this is one of our friends calling, at
the sound of the tone please leave a message. If this is someone calling from
the homsexual community with a death threat or verbal intimidation, I hope you
have the courage of your convictions to leave your name and home phone number
because we'd love to be back in touch with you...'
The verbal abuse that led to Devlin's pre-emptive phone tag stemmed from his
leading role in turning back a 'domestic partner' bill in Philadelphia that
would have granted legal recognition to live-in homosexual couples. Such
legislation has become a priority of gay activists nationwide.
"Devlin is director of the Philedelphia Christian Action Council. The
religious-led, multi-ethnic coalition of which he was a member waged an
effective grassroots campaign that flooded City Hall with petitions and letters
opposing the pro-gay legislation.
"The pro-family coaltion won a come-from-behind victory, leaving homosexual
activists furious and vengeful. On August 14, pink and black posters targeting
Devlin began appearing on Philadelphia utility poles calling on people to
'PHONE ZAP THIS MAN!' The posters included his name, home address, and a
paragraph describing his role in defeating the gay 'partners' bill.
"The next days, activists began phoning Devlin's house to say that he and his
family should be dead. One man called at 1:00 in the morning to say, 'I'm
calling for all the queers in Philadelphia, and you should drop dead.'
Another: 'You and your family deserve to die.'
"Of course, Devlin's cohorts shared in the abuse. In May, Cardinal Anthony
Bevilacqua, Catholic Archbishop of Philadelphia, and his spokesman Jay Devine
were crudely mocked in an editorial cartoon in the Philadelphia Gay News.
Photos of each of their heads were superimposed atop nude male torsos, with the
Cardinal's dialogue insinuating a sexual relationship with Devine."
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From: jspaul@b8.b8.ingr.com (Joey Paul)
Date: 15 Nov 1993 16:21:28 -0600
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Press Release from the Hamilton Square Baptist Church, 1212 Geary
Street at Franklin, San Francisco, California, USA 94109,
Ph: 415-673-8586 David C. Innes, Pastor
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Copied and distributed with permission as published by the church.
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September 23, 1993
Dear Fellowsoldier in Christ;
Last Sunday evening, September 19, at our 6:00 PM service, our
church was stormed by a mob of rioting homosexuals and lesbians.
They came to protest the presence of Reverend Lou Sheldon of the
Traditional Values Coalition. Because of the political
stranglehold that the homosexual community has on this city, they
were allowed to commit numerous criminal violations with impunity.
I am enclosing two items: an official accounting of some of the
events that took place that evening, and an information sheet
listing the names, addresses, and phone numbers of the city
officials responsible for this travesty against our church and our
religious freedoms.
What has happened here will be happening all across America if
God's people do not establish a beachhead, draw the line and take
their stand.
I am pleading for your help. Here's what you can do:
1. Carefully read the enclosed materials and invest some of your
money on long distance phone calls to each of the city officials on
the list. Remember that we are on Pacific time.
2. If you would prefer, write a letter to each of the city
officials on the list. I believe that phone calls would be more
effective.
3. Copy these materials on you copy machine and distribute them to
all of your people, requesting that they also call or write.
4. Send copies of these materials to those on your mailing list.
Please consider carefully that if they can do this to us here in
San Francisco, this kind of tragedy will soon spread across the
country. Brethren, pray that you never see this happen to your
church.
The people of our church have responded to this incident with
courage and grace. It is our prayer that God will save many of
these precious people who are lost and in spiritual darkness, and
make them trophies of His grace. God has not commissioned us to
hate sinners and seek their destruction, but rather to love them
and give them the good news of the gospel as their only hope.
We are rejoicing in the Lord. We shall press on in our service for
Him with joy, courage, and zeal. God is on the throne and we will
always be triumphant in Him. Our goal is the exaltation of Christ
and the glory of God.
Brethren, pray for us.
With warm Christian regards,
David C. Innes
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NEWS RELEASE: OFFICIAL STATEMENT BY DR. DAVID C. INNES
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The following events took place on Sunday evening, September 19,
1993 revolving around the regularly scheduled 6:00 PM Sunday
Evening Worship Service of the Hamilton Square Baptist Church, 1212
Geary St., San Francisco, California. Reverend Lou Sheldon, of the
Traditional Values Coalition, was invited by the church to be the
guest speaker.
Only the church's membership and regular attenders were notified of
the service, through the church's own Sunday bulletin. No public
notice or invitation was made in addition to this. However, in the
September 16, 1993 edition of the BAY AREA REPORTER, the meeting
was announced in a front page article using intemperate,
inflammatory language. A three-by-five ad on page five of the
September 15, 1993 edition of the SAN FRANCISCO SENTINEL announced
a protest of the Sunday night service. The church has no knowledge
of how, or from whom they obtained the information.
The church received telephone calls during the week prior to the
meeting, demanding that our guest speaker should not come. Two
people came to the church during that week asking to see the pastor
and, speaking to the caretaker, notified him that we could not have
Rev. Sheldon as a guest speaker in our church, and that they
intended to stop him.
The church's pastor, Dr. David C. Innes, made at least four calls
to the Northern (Police) Station prior to the meeting, on Saturday
and Sunday afternoon regarding the demonstration, expressing his
concern for potential problems. He called the Northern Station
immediately before the service, and requested more police backup
because he felt the situation was not under control. He was
informed that no backup would be sent unless requested by police
that were present and further, that they had not requested it. Dr.
Innes was told, "You must understand. This is San Francisco."
Homosexual and lesbian demonstrators began gathering around the
church property as early as 5:00 PM. The police were immediately
notified by telephone of their presence. As people entered the
building, demonstrators handed out flyers purporting to be
published by the church. These were also placed upon automobile
windshields in the immediate area. By 6:00 PM a riot was under
way. The rioters assumed complete control of the exterior property
and grounds of the church. In spite of several requests to have
them removed the officer in charge insisted that everything was
under control and that police procedures and regulations would not
allow him to do so.
At about the time of the beginning of the service, an usher
stationed himself in the courtyard to assist members in gaining
entry to the building. The usher witnessed the destruction of
church property and notified an officer who turned away and ignored
him. The rioters recognized him as a church member, surrounded him
and completely denied him any freedom of movement.
Pastor Charles & Donna Mcllhenny were refused entry by the rioters,
and told they could not enter the building. The doors were
completely blocked by the rioters. Pastor Mcllhenny held on to
Donna as they began to make their way through the mob who were
shouting and screaming in their ears, "You will not enter this
church." The rioters assaulted them, pushing and shoving them,
seeking to keep them from the front door. One of them grabbed
Donna's body, lifting her off the ground, and another put his arms
completely around her, and attempted to pull her back away from the
entry. She stretched her arms out for help from a nearby police
officer who offered no assistance. Her son, seeing she was in
trouble, pleaded with the officers to assist her. The officers
appeared so overwhelmed by the rioters that they were unable to
take control of the situation. Both of her hands were scratched
(the skin was broken).
Finally, the church's caretaker grabbed her outstretched arms and
pulled her through to the door, out of the hands of the rioters.
As they made their way past the three police officers at the door,
they were pelted by rocks, which also struck the window panes of
the entry doors. Several members from Pastor Mcllhenny's church
also were accosted and had to flee to a side entrance. There they
also found the entry blocked and had to remain outside until the
riot police arrived and let them in the building. Pastor
Mcllhenny's son, Ryan, and his friend were not able to enter the
building.
The rioters removed the Christian flag from the flagpole, and
attached the gay flag under the U.S. flag. The church's caretaker
removed both flags, but a rioter grabbed the gay flag and it was
again run up the flag pole and the rope knotted out of reach. When
the caretaker again attempted to remove the gay flag, he was
assaulted and hit with eggs. Being pushed back, he was unable to
reach the flag pole, and returned to the entry of the church. Much
of the newly planted landscaping around the flag pole was damaged.
One cement bench was pushed over into the fountain by rioters.
When police were notified of this they refused to respond. A
second bench was dismantled and the seat thrown over into a light
well and destroyed by rioters. The rioters guilty of this
vandalism described this wanton destruction of church property as
"interior decorating". Paper messages were stuck to the handrails,
walls and windows of the building.
A single parent, who is a church member, and her six year old
daughter were told they could not enter the building. A rioter
grabbed her daughter's arm as she was clinging to her mother, and
began interrogating her. The mother and daughter finally entered
the building by passing through the rioters. The child was crying
and terrified. The mother had also brought an elderly friend who
was refused entry by the rioters. Twenty minutes passed before she
was able to get her friend into the service. Along with these,
many others of the elderly and children were terrorized.
To our knowledge, riot police were never called in by the officers
present. They came only because the guest speaker left the worship
service and called 911. The rioters were then removed from the
courtyard area of the church property by the riot police. They
then proceeded to the emergency exit doors on the west side of the
auditorium where they pounded and kicked the doors seeking to break
them down. This so disturbed the service in process that the
service had to be temporarily discontinued. The officers present
were immediately notified. The pounding was so loud, that an
elderly blind woman was terrified, thinking that the sound was
gunshots. She began crying, feeling helpless and threatened, and
was comforted by nearby members. Due to the forceful nature of the
rioter's attempt to break down the doors, one of the exit doors was
damaged in a major way, the door jam being broken.
Rioters continued their demonstration, standing on church property
with their megaphone. The rioters then laid down in the
intersection of Geary and Franklin, blocking all traffic. The
rioters passed out the fraudulent flyers to waiting vehicles and
pounded on the vehicles of those attempting to cross the
intersection. The police took no action to remove them for
approximately ten minutes. A woman demonstrator exposed her
breasts to church members present in the area.
One woman, a regular attender at our services, and her husband were
hindered from entering the building by the rioters who had been
moved to the sidewalk. When she entered the building she was so
terrified that one of our other ladies had to help her calm down.
Another member stood across the street and did not enter because of
fear of physical violence.
As the service was concluded, the people were split into three
groups. All of the children were clinging to the parents,
frightened to leave the building. Two groups exited out emergency
exits. One group waited, and then exited the main entrance. The
people were shouted at and threatened by the rioters as they made
their way to their cars, being called Christian bigots, hypocrites,
fascists, homophobes, and other expletives, some obscene. An eight
year old retarded girl, upon exiting through the front entrance was
so traumatized upon being verbally accosted, that she fell down the
steps.
The guest speaker was escorted by police to the church van, as
debris pelted him from the rioters. Following his departure the
rioters began to depart and the riot police were dismissed. The
rioters shouted at the police, "You won't be here all night, but
the church (building) will be." Only two or three police officers
remained to secure the building. Dr. Innes, Rev. Eugene Lumpkin,
and the church's associate Pastor with his wife and children
remained inside. When this became known to the rioters, they
returned in force to the church and began pounding on the front
doors. The situation was once again out of control and Dr. Innes
called 911 for reinforcements. When the rioters saw children
standing in the lobby, they shouted, "We want your children. Give
us your children." The police asked us to move away from the
entry. Dr. Innes, his associate and family left through another
exit. A nine year old boy was crying in hysterics. "They are
after me, it's me they want." He did not calm down until the
family was several miles from the building.
A rioter broke one of the large address numbers off the face of the
building and attempted to remove others unsuccessfully. A
citizen's arrest was made on this individual. The person making
the citizen's arrest was verbally threatened by other rioters.
Officers told us they were informed by the rioters that our meeting
was an open, public meeting, and they did not intend to prohibit
the entry of the rioters onto our property. The pastor, Dr. Innes,
informed the officers that this was a regularly scheduled church
worship service and was not, as such, an open, public meeting, in
the secular sense. He further informed the officers that no public
notice had been made by the church inviting the public. The police
later insisted that they were bound by the rioters claim that this
was an open, public meeting and not a worship service. We were
informed by the police, that due to the city's police regulations
and policies, the police were not allowed to enforce the law
regarding the disturbance of church worship services and the
presence of rioters on church property. Police estimates of the
number of rioters were approximately 75, although actual counts
indicated a number closer to 100.
In spite of all this malicious disruption, not a single arrest was
made by the police outside of one citizen's arrest. The church's
property was not secured, and the fundamental rights of the
worshippers were not protected because, we were told, "The Board of
Supervisors would never support the measures necessary to do so."
Upon leaving for the final time, several of the rioters said, "We
will be back." Numerous obscene and threatening telephone calls
have been received at the church following the riot.
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WHAT YOU CAN DO
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After familiarizing yourself with the events as described [above],
we ask that you call each of the city officials listed [below].
Ask to speak to the chief aid of the person you are calling if the
official is not available. Tell them you have called in support of
Dr. Innes and his church. Express your outrage concerning the
homosexual riot and storming of the Hamilton Square Baptist Church.
PLEASE be respectful and kind in your remarks. By all means there
should be no name calling or threatening; these will only be
counterproductive.
Specifically, ask the mayor to have the rioters arrested and to
prosecute them to the full extent allowable under the law.
Urge the Supervisors to pass a resolution:
1. Condemning the violence against the Hamilton Square Baptist
Church.
2. Affirming that the churches of San Francisco have equal human
rights with all other groups and must be given full protection
under the law.
3. Calling for swift justice in arrest and prosecution of all of
the rioters.
IN ADDITION TO THE ABOVE
Fax or mail a copy of the news release to the following San
Francisco newspapers:
San Francisco Chronicle - FAX number 415-512-8196 attention City
Desk.
San Francisco Examiner - FAX number 415-777-2525 attention City
Desk.
Call or write the news editors and protest their failure to cover
this story:
San Francisco Chronicle 415-777-7100
5th and Mission
San Francisco, CA 94105
San Francisco Examiner 415-777-2424
110 Fifth
San Francisco, CA 94103
IF THE PHONE LINES ARE BUSY, PLEASE CONTINUE TO CALL UNTIL YOU GET
THROUGH!
OFFICIALS
San Francisco Mayor's office
415-554-6141
The Honorable Frank Jordan
Room 200, City Hall
400 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94102
San Francisco Board of Supervisors
Supervisor (Name)
Room 235, City Hall
400 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94102
Angela Alioto 415-554-7788
Vocally hostile to the churches on this issue
Sue Bierman 415-554-6661
Very liberal, but not openly hostile
Annemarie Conroy 415-554-7751
Shares our concern somewhat
Terence Hallinan 415-554-7766
Openly hostile to the churches on this issue
Tom Hsieh (pronounced Shay) 415-554-5015
Neutral
Barbara Kaufman 415-554-4880
Neutral
Willie B. Kennedy
She has been a real friend to us - write and thank her
Susan Leal (pronounced Lay-al) 415-554-6644
Hostile to us on this issue
Bill Maher 415-554-5401
Position not known
Carole Migden 415-554-4033
Vocally hostile to the churches on all issues
Kevin F. Shelley 415-554-4005
Position not known
Gay Packet III to be posted Monday